Love Breathing is a Breathing Style that is based on the emotion of love, and replicates it with the user's movements, techniques and abilities. Most, if not all, known techniques inculcate a gymnastic and movement-oriented rhythm into the user's attacks, making use of their superhuman flexibility, dexterity, and agility to perform wide, winding and weaving slashes that have mid-to-long range applications. Users of Love Breathing also visualize themselves seemingly creating pink and green sparks as well as pink lines that follow the direction of their attacks.
This Breathing Style is the personal creation of Mitsuri Kanroji, made by altering the Flame Breathing she learned from Kyojuro Rengoku to suit her flexibility and strength. It takes advantage of her body's unique muscle density, which grants her inhuman strength without making her physically bulky, to deliver fast and powerful blows while moving with incredible flexibility and agility. As it relies on her body's special composition, it is a style only she can use. It can also be assumed that this Breathing Style is most effective with a whip-like katana, however, a regular one can also be used as shown in the Gaiden.
Love Breathing has 6 forms at minimum, of which 5 were demonstrated.
First Form: Shivers of First Love (壱ノ型初恋のわななき,Ichi no kata: Hatsukoi no Wananaki?)[1] - The user dashes forward and performs a single slash that winds through the target, hitting multiple areas with one slice.
Second Form: Love Pangs (弐ノ型懊悩巡る恋,Ni no kata: Ōnō Meguru Koi?)[2] - The user performs a singular, long-winding swing, akin to a whipping motion, that cuts the target at multiple angles.
Third Form: Catlove Shower (参ノ型恋猫しぐれ,San no kata: Koi Neko Shigure?)[3] - The user leaps into the air and performs multiple arched slashes in quick succession.
Fifth Form: Swaying Love, Wildclaw (伍ノ型揺らめく恋情・乱れ爪,Go no kata: Yurameku Renjō - Midarezume?)[4] - The user leaps into the air before performing a somersault and releasing dozens of rapid, winding slashes from afar that essentially form a tornado of slashes.
Sixth Form: Cat-Legged Winds of Love (陸ノ型猫足恋風,Roku no kata: Neko Ashi Koi Kaze?)[5] - The user fully extends their sword to perform an arcing slash before retracting it and extending it once more, done in quick succession to form a layer of slashes.
Game Exclusive Techniques[]
Fifth Form: Swaying Love, Wildclaw, Everlasting Beauty (伍ノ型揺らめく恋情・乱れ爪麗,Go no kata: Yurameku Renjō - Midarezume - Rei?)[6] - A slightly more theatrical version of Swaying Love, Wildclaw. The user whips their opponent with their sword several times before dramatically wrapping it around themselves and subsequently twirling around to launch the sword and further strike the opponent in quick succession. The user then executes the fifth form as they would normally.
Random Slash (乱れ斬り,Midare Kiri?)[6] - The user leaps and somersaults behind their opponent, randomly slashing them multiple times with their long blade.
Dancing Love Haze (恋霞演舞,Koi Kasumi Enbu?)[6] - A collaboration between a Love Breathing user and a Mist Breathing user. Both strike their opponent simultaneously before the Mist Breather lunges and strikes them before following up their attack with a backhand swing. The Love Breather then attacks the opponent with a somersault. Following this, the pair bombard the opponent with constant slashes from their respective Breathing Styles. The Love and Mist Breather then finish their attack by performing their third and fifth forms respectively (Catlove Shower and Sea of Clouds and Haze) while dashing in two directions.
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